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http://pbwiki2basics.pbwiki.com/

Tell me what you think. It's got 95% of pbwiki 2.0 documented in a way I hope newbies can understand.

Hey everyone! The support staff has been working on a documentation manual for PBwiki 2.0, and it's ready now. Check it out at newfaq20.pbwiki.com.

This document will grow as the product grows. If you see something it's missing, just let us know and we'll add it in.

Thanks!

How do I create a new page?

There are two simple ways to create a new page:

One way to create a page is to click on the "New Page" button at the top of your wiki. Be sure to remember that you will need to create a link to this page later - otherwise, you may orphan the page.

If you have a reason to create a wiki page without linking to it, here's a little cheat - you can type the page's name into the search box in the upper right or you can just type in the new page's web address directly (http://yourwiki.pbwiki.com/NewPage) but remember that with no link to this page, it might get lonely in a hurry because people will only be able to find it through the "Show all pages" link (Located in the footnotes, under 'Wiki Information').

The second way to make a new page is to create a link to it. Wikis are unusual in that instead of encountering an error when you click on a "broken" link, the wiki will let you define it as a new page. So when you're editing your FrontPage (or any other page in your wiki), you can either type "See my news page" or "see my RecentNews". Both methods work - the first requires you to put brackets around the link you're making and the second requires you to use CamelCase.

Another way to create a link is to put square [brackets] around any word or phrase to create a new page. For example, if you wanted a page called "cars," you could just type [cars]! You can also watch a video that shows how to create pages:
http://pbwiki.com/videos/NewPage.swf

PLEASE NOTE :
'wiki names', 'page names' and 'file names' - CANNOT contain any special characters, other than a dash or an underscore.
All other special characters are reserved for internet use. Would you believe that 'the apostrophe' (') is the most misused character in page and files names?